ƶ

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See also: Ƶ and z

ƶ U+01B6, ƶ
LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH STROKE
Ƶ
[U+01B5]
Latin Extended-B Ʒ
[U+01B7]

Translingual[edit]

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ƶ (upper case Ƶ)

  1. The letter z with a stroke, sometimes used in handwriting to avoid confusion with the digit 2.
  2. (obsolete) A letter of Yañalif, the Unified Northern Alphabet, and similar orthographies, used during the short-lived Soviet Latinization campaign of the 1930s. Pronounced /ʒ/.

See also[edit]

Abkhaz[edit]

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Letter[edit]

ƶ (lower case, upper case Ƶ, Cyrillic ж)

  1. The forty-fifth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, in the Latin script

Chechen[edit]

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ƶ (lower case, upper case Ƶ, Cyrillic ж, Arabic ج)

  1. (1992–2000) The fortieth letter of the Chechen alphabet, called ƶe and written in the Latin script.

Polish[edit]

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ƶ (lower case, upper case Ƶ)

  1. an allograph of ż

Further reading[edit]

  • ƶ in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Tatar[edit]

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ƶ (lower case, upper case Ƶ, Yaña imlâ Arabic ژ, Latin j, Cyrillic ж)

  1. the 34th letter of Jaꞑalif